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tragedies of the mines,
Oarloui Accident* That llhvc Happened to
Delven After Hidden Treaanre.
“lit tfoim line of work we come across
acme carious accidents and narrow
escapes,” said Deputy Mine Inspector
frank Hunter the other night. ‘‘One
thing strnck me long ago, and that is
how much it takes to kill a man some
times and how easily the thread of life
is often snapped.
“Down in Colorado I knew a fellow
who plunged down BCO feet in a single
compartment shaft. He went to the
bottom, but did not break a bone. Os
course he was pretty badly jarred up
and a good deal frightened, but he was
all right again in a day or two. When
he fell, be went down feet first, and a
big oilskin that he wore opened out at
the bottom and acted as a parachute.
He said the last part of his descent was
so much slower than the first that be
hardly thought he was dropping at all
and half expected to remain suspended
in the shaft, like Mohammed’s coffin.
“Nearly always when a man falls
any distance he turns over, if he starts
feet downward, and finishes his plunge
head first. I have seen a number of
cases where the man fell with his boots
on and was found barefooted when he
was picked up. I suppose this is because
the blood goes to the head, making the
feet smaller, and besides the pressure of
the air upon the heel and acts
as a bootjack.
“I had to go over to Sand Coulee to
investigate an accident in which one
man was killed and another had three
ribs broken. Speaking of Sand Coulee,
it struck me while I was there that if I
wanted to commit suicide I would go
there to do it I don’t mean that life
becomes such a burden in the coal coun
try that the ties that bind are more
easily severed than elsewhere, but that
it affords unsurpassed facilities for a
cheap and hhppy dispatch. It’s a won
der to me that some of the many peo
ple who annually launch themselves
into eternity from Butte do not take
the Sand. Coulee route.
‘‘Down in the coal mines there is
one passage that is three miles long, and
in some of the chambers air does not
seem to circulate. Upon the walls
there is a gathering of moisture, and if
you puff a cigar in one of these cham
bers the smoke will seek the walls,
where it clings with an undulating
movement like a spray of weeds under
running water. That dew on the walls
is white damp, and the dead air of the
chamber where it is found is poisonous.
In a few minutes a feeling of drowsi
ness steals over a man who breathes it,
and before long he is asleep and dream
ing deliciously, so those say who have
been resuscitated. But the sleep is akin
to that of the lost traveler over whose
numbed limbs the arctic snow eddies
and drifts, for unless help comes soon
there is no awakening. If, however, the
venturesome explorer of these under
ground deathtraps realizes his danger
in time and manages to stagger out in
to the fresh air, he has an experience
to undergo which may cause him to re
gret that he did not remain inside. Ev
ery bone and muscle aches with the in
• tolerable poignancy that is known to
convalescents from yellow fever. The
treatment is simple, but effective. Be
ing nearly dead, the sufferer is nearly
buried. A hole is dug in the soft earth,
and the victim is made to stand up in it
while the dirt is thrown in around him
until only his head is seen above ground.-
This seems to draw out the soreness,
add in a short time the patient has ful
ly recovered.”—Butte (Mon.) Miner.
IJfe of the Snltan.
Richard Davey, in his book, “The
Snltan and His Subjects,” says:
“As to the sultan himself, his life is
of the simplest and most arduous. He
rises at ft and works with his secreta
ries until noon, when he breakfasts.
After that he takes a drive or a row on
the lake, within his vast park. When
he returns, he gives audience to the
grand vizier, the sheik-ul-islam, and
other officials. At 8 o’clock he dines,
sometimes alone, not infrequently in
company with one of the embassadors.
Occasionally his majesty entertains the
wives and daughters of the embassadors
and other Pera notabilities at dihner.
The meal, usually a very silent one, is
served in gorgeous style, a la Francaise,
on the finest of plate and the most ex
quisite of porcelain. The treasures of
silver and the Sevres at Yildiz are hors
■de ligne, both in quantity and quality.
Very often in the evening Abdul Ham
id plays duets on the* piano with his
younger children. He is very fond of
light music, and his favorite score is i
that of ‘La Fille de Mme. Angot. ’ He
dresses like an ordinary European gen
tleman, always wearing a frock coat,
the breast of which, on great occasions, ,
is richly embroidered and blazing with
decorations.”
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High Priced Bumblebees.
Many years ago the farmers of Aus
tralia imported bumblebees from Eng
land and set them free in their clover
fields. Before the arrival of the bees ,
-clover did hot flourish in Australia,
but after their coming the farmers had
ho more difficulty on that score. Mr.
Darwin had shoWn that bumblebees ,
were the only insects fond of clover neo- ■
tar which possessed a proboscis suffi
ciently long to reach the bottom of the (
long, tubelike flowers and at the same ]
time a body heavy enough to bend down (
the clover head so that the pollen would
fall on the insect’s back and thus be
carried off to fertilize other flowers of
the same species. According to a writer ]
in Popular {Science News, the bumble
bees sent to Australia cost the farmers (
there about half a dollar apiece, but ,
they proved to be worth the price. ]
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Their Boatman.
Mrs Eastlake—You visited Venice
’while you were in Europe, I hear, Mrs.
Trotter? ■ i
Mrs. Trotter—Yes, indeed, and we
were rowed about by one of the chande- i
liers for which that city is noted.— '
Harper’s Bazar. • i
SCHOOLS AND POLITICS?*
A Scheme With Real Eatate Trimmings
That Won In Oregon.
‘‘Speaking of schools in relation to
politics,” said the ex-boomer from Ore
gon, ‘‘always reminds me of a campaign
in which I was interested some years
ago. The Douglas county representative
in the Oregon state legislature, realiz
ing that his popularity was not exceed
ingly great, had been talking of build
ing a new state normal school, presum
ably at Roseburg, the county seat and
his own home. This caused great con
sternation among the 350 inhabitants
of the little city of Drain, who had been
profiting by the courtesy title of ‘Drain
Academy and Oregon State Normal
school, ’ under which the school there
had been run since 1885. The postmas
ter, who kept a drug store and sold
school supplies, took counsel with his
sister-in-law, who dealt in millinery
and ran a boarding house for students,
and she sought the mayor, at whose
general merchandise emporium she was
the principal customer.
“The mayor was a man who thought
slowly, but to a purpose, and, having
set himself the task of devising some
way of circumventing the member
from Roseburg, he passed the next three
days in profound cogitation. He con
ceived a scheme whose various elabora
tions and ramifications were too diver
sified for him to handle alone, and he
came to me for help. I had just gained
considerable influence in the county
through backing a projected railroad to
the coast, and also as a real estate deal
er and sawmill owner. With my busi
ness methods and the mayor’s knowl
edge of the conditions confronting us
our plans were soon put into operation.
First, we suggested the candidacy of an
ambitious young Drainite, a dealer in
leather goods and hardware, for mem
ber of the legislature, taking all the
wind out of his opponent’s sails by
heartily indorsing the talk in favor of a
new normal school. Meantime we had
a large grain field of the mayor’s, which
had begun to lose its fertility on ac
count of overcultivation, surveyed into
city lots, and as soon as our candidate
had received the regular party nomina
tion we put the town site of East Drain,
with its streets named after conspicuous
men of the state, on the market and
gave one of its centrally located blocks
for the new normal school.
“Well, everything came to pass ex
actly as we had planned. Our candidate
was elected, and the building of the new
normal school on the site we gave was
authorized. We sold a sufficient num
ber of East Drain lots to more than pay
for the land and all expensea The con
tractors on the new school were men
who had aided the legislation authoriz
ing it, and they got their supplies from
the mayor, their hardware from the
member and their lumber from mp. My
mill also supplied lumber for other
buildings in East Drain, including a
new boarding house for the milliner,
who has prospered ever since. The post
master’s increased business soon war
ranted his moving into one of the two
brick buildings in the city of Drain, and
the former dealel in leather goods and
hardware is still member of the Oregon
legislature. ” —New York Sun.
Duration of Human Life.
That the human being was intended
for greater length of life than is usually
attained in our artificial existence is
probable from the fact that he does not
reach his full and complete development
until his twenty-fifth year. The life of
most of the low animals is reckoned to
be about five times their maturity in a
natural condition, and, although dis
turbing causes interfere with human
life in the present day, jtet within cer
tain limits man is subject to the same
laws as every other type of existence in
either the animal or the vegetable king
dom.
Nature has assigned to him a certain
period during which he should attain to
a sound physical and mental maturity,
and any attempt to curtail that period
by early forcing is and must be neces
sarily productive of lamentable results.
The boy or girl may be developed under
a system of steady “cramming” into a
highly accomplished man or woman,
long before full age has been reached,
but it may be accepted as an axiom in
almost all instances that the earlier the
development the earlier the decay. The
least® to be learned from the records of
those who have lived to advanced years
is that moderation in all things, whether
physical or intellectual, is the secret of
long life, and that it is easy by system
atically violating this rule to produce an
artificial old age.—Nineteenth Century
A Friendly Bar Examination.
A Georgia correspondent sends us this
account of a young man’s oral examina
tion for the bar by a local committee
before an old judge, who was also an
old acquaintance of the candidate. Be
ing asked, “Whatis arson?” he scratch
ed his head and finally said, “I believe
that’s pbou, ain’t it?”
On this the old judge, to help him
out, says:* “Tut, tut, Jim. Suppose I
were to set fire to your house and burn
it down, what would that be?”
With quick and emphatic reply Jim
says, “I think it would be a dad dratted
mean trick. ”
But*although this answer was not
technically accurate Jim was in the
hands of his friends and was honorably
admitted. —Case and Comment.
Walked Right Over Them.
“So your wife won that suit about
her real estate?”
“Os course. You didn’t suppose that
such little obstacles as a judge, 8 law
yers and 12 jurymen could throw her
off the track, did you?”—Detroit Free
Press. ■
Physiological.
Instructor —What is it that gives to
the blood its bright red color?
Little Miss Thavnoo —I know. (It’s
the corpuscles But ours ain’t red.
They’re blue Mamma says so.—-Chi
cago Tribune.
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A PRIVATE AMBULANCE.
1 Reminiscences of the Civil War Related
by an Old Soldier.
► “Among the men wounded in my
regiment at a battle in Virginia,” said
1 the old soldier, “was a man in my com
i pany who was shot through the body
’ and taken to the rear. Our troops fell
back after the fight, and we had more
wounded than we had transportation
for, but two men out of his own tent
sot out to carry this man wherever we
1 were going, which was presumably
the camp behind intrenchments that
i we’d left in the morning.
“They took turns at backing him foi
half a mile or so until they came to s
farmhouse that had a grassy yard in
1 front They laid him down on the grass
and took a little look around the houw
to see what they could see. In a build
ing at the rear they came across some
thing that made ’em stand still and
look at each other and laugh. It was a
hand cart. What nse the folks here had
made of it they couldn’t guess, but they
knew what use they were going to make
of it They got it otft of the building
and rolled it around the side of the
house alongside the wounded man and
dropped the handle on the grass. He
laughed, too, when he saw it. He was
going the rest of the way in a private
ambulance.
“The two men took their blankets off
■ their shoulders and untied them and
spread their rubbers down on the bot
tom of the hand cart and spread their
woolen blankets down on them, and
then they ran the hand cart up and rent
ed the handle on the front steps of the
house and lifted in the wounded man
and laid their guns in beside him. Then
they turned the cart around again, and
one man got inside the shafts, with the
crosspiece aganst his waist belt, and
the other man got behind to push. They
all smiled again when they started,
wounded man and all.
‘•‘lt beat backing him out of sight. It
was dry weather, and the roads were
sandy, and up hill and on the level the
wheeling was hard. But there was
more down hill than there was up,
places where they had to hold back,
and it was all immensely more com
fortable for the wounded man, and so
they got him back to camp and to the
surgeon again. But he died after all. ’ ’
—New York Sun.
FORTUNES FROM GARBAGE.
Science Converts the Refuse of Cities Into
Steam, Fertilizers, Soap, Etc.
William George Jordan, writing on
“Wonders of the World’s Waste,” in
The Ladies Home Journal, says: ‘‘The
garbage of a great city is worth a for
tune every year if properly utilized. In
St. Louis the refuse is placed in enor
mous vertical cylinders, Surrounded by
steam jackets, which evaporate the 75
to 80 per cent of water in the garbage.
The fatty substances are dissolved, and
as the result of a number of'processes a
fertilizer is produced which is worth
from $9 to 112 per ton, the demand ex
ceeding the supply. One of the' purest
and best soaps of the country was made
of garbage grease before cottonseed oil
entered the field. It is now proposed to
light London by electricity for nothing.
It now costs that city SLSB (4s. Bd. 1 to
get rid of a ton of garbage. A combina
tion of rollers and otheA apparatus has
been devised that can burn-the-garbage
at 24 cents (1 shilling) per ton and gen
erate steam sufficient to run enough dy
namos to light the entire city. “London
can thus save 3s. Bd. on each ton and
in addition illuminate its city without
cost. Garbage, by a machine called the
dust destructor, is converted into clink
ers, which can be used for roadways, as
artificial stone for sidewalks and as
sand for mortar and cement. In Paris
the invisible particles of iron, worn
from wheels and from the shoes of
horses, are rescued by passing powerful
magnets through the sweepings. ”
A Vision of the Future.
Clarence King, formerly chief of the
United States geological survey, says;
“The time is not far distant when
a man can start out of Denver and
travel to Klondike, stopping every night
at a mining camp. Already two Ameri
can stamp mills are pounding away on
the borders of the strait of Magellan,
and the day is approaching when a
chain of mining camps will extend from
Cape Horn to St. Michael’s. I believe
we are about to enter upon a century
which will open up vast resources and
will be the grandest the earth ha? ever
known. Before the end of the twentieth
century the traveler will enter a sleep
ing oar at Chicago bound via Bering
strait for St. Petersburg, and the
dream of Governor Gilpin will be real
ized. ’ ’
Slang.
The difference between ancient and
modern slang was amusingly illustrated
in a recent incident at the Chautauqua
assembly, when the teacher of English
literature asked, “What is the mean
ing of the Shakespearian phrase ‘Gc
to?’ ” and a member of the class replied,
“Oh, that is only the sixteenth century
expression of the modern term ‘Come
off.’ ” The two phrases, while appar
ently opposite, do, in fact, substantially
mean the same thing.—Chicago Chron
icle.
A Natural Inference.
“Did you hear what Whimpton’s lit
tle boy said when they showed him the
twins?”
“No; what was it?”
“He said, ‘There, mamma’s been get
ting bargains again.’” Collier’s
Weekly.
It 4s an extraordinary fact that only
two presidents were born between April
and October. The record by months is
as follows: January, 2; February, 3;
March, 4; April, 1; July, 1; August, 1;
October, 3; November, 4; December, 2.
In Russia woipen householders vote
for all elective officers and on all local
matters. '
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Manx mental Impudouee,
A soldier stationed at a Kansas poet got
Ms discharge from the service a few years
ago by a steady display of monumental
impudence that could be attributed only
to insanity. The third day after thia sol
dier arrived at the Kansas poet with a
shipment of troops from a Nebraska gar
rison he was put on guard. Ho was walk
ing No. 1 post In front of the guardhouse
when the post chaplain, a very pompous
tnan, came along. The soldier gave him
no rifle salute nor any other sort of recog
nition. The chaplain turned .and walked
back past the sentry. Ho did not get so
much as a look from the man pacing his
post. The chaplain strode up to the sentry
With wrath in his eye.
“My man,” said he, "do you know who
I am?”
“Naw,” said the sentry. “Who the
h—l are you anyhow?"
The chaplain looked aghnst.
“I am the chaplain of this post,“ he
managed to utter.
The soldier looked him over critically
from head to foot
“Well,” he said finally, “you’ve got a
d—d good job, haven't you?”
Ten minutes later the sentry was re
lieved of his gun and belt and was in the
guardhouse. In the afternoon he was
taken before the commanding officer. He
looked at the commanding officer quiz
si oally.
“ You’re a blooming old fraud,’’said he
to one of the most stately colonels in the
army.
The post surgeon was called in. He be
gan questioning the soldier, who would
answer no questions.
■ “Oh, you’re the sawbones, I see,” said
he to the surgeon finally. “And you don’t
look as ft you knew as much about surgery
as me aunt in Ireland. ”
This soldier was outside of the post gate
with his discharge in his pocket two weeks
later.—New York Sun.
Interesting Legal Possibilities.
When the learned assistant corporation
counsel came into court the other day
wearing “a gray skirt, narrow white
leather belt, black and white check shirt
waist, standing collar and black tie,” it
was at onoe apparent to the chroniclers of
the proceedings that the time for a depar
ture in the musty methods of setting down
the evolution of the law had arrived.
The entrance of the learned assistant
corporation counsel was, In fact, a kind of
formal notification that the law is even
now in the process of being invested in
shirt waists, gray skirts and the other
mysteries of multifarious feminine habili
ments, and that due regard must be paid
to that fact hereafter In the literature of
the law.
The lawbooks will in time be strewn
with descriptive sentences of the sort used
In reporting those present at the charity
ball. Thus;
“Opinion by Juggerson, Ch. J. (Black
silk, cut high in the neok, trimmed with
jet.)
“Dissenting opinion by Pugsley, J.
(Tailor made gown of blue cloth, full in
the skirt, pearl ornaments.)”
The journalistic account of the trial will
say: “Counsel for complainant then arose
to reply, wearing a lovely satin dress trim
med with lace. ’ ’
What a world of opportunity for crush
ing repartee the new order will afford 1
, Thus, in the beat of forensic debate,
, shouts like this may be delivered, “I dis
sent, your honors, from the position taken
by counsel for the other side, whose hat, I
' may remark in passing, is not on straight. ”
Or: “May it please the court, the prece
dent which opposing counsel has cited no
I more fits this ease than her jacket fits her
back. Her deductions, like her front hair,
are false. ” —Chicago News. ,
A Town of Icelanders.
The most Icelandic town in America is
Minnesota, Minn. Even its mayor is an Ice
lander. As most of these Icelanders are Lu
therans, they joined together a few years
ago and organized an Independent synod.
Until recently they have been greatly ham
pered by the lack of a literature. This
lack, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
has been felt with much severity in their
Sunday schools, where they had nothing
to read or study printed in a language
that either old or young could understand.
To meet the want a firm of young Iceland
ers has recently started the publication Os
a Sunday school paper containing the les
sons. These Icelanders live, for the most
part, in Minnesota, North Dakota and
Manitoba.
Two years ago the Manitobans suggest
ed the foundation of a college. It met with
instant approval, but the town of Crystal,
N. D., which has in it some New England
enterprise, got in the first inducement to
locate in the shape of an offer of a bonus
of 12,000 and six acres of land. Park
River, N. D., almost immediately offered
$4,000 and ten acres of land. This was
all done before Winnipeg had waked up.
The latter claimed that as the suggestion
had come from it, it ought to have a chance
to hold out an inducement to build the
school in Winnipeg. Accordingly, to give
the slow Englishmen up there time to
decide whether or not to help their Ice
landic neighbors, a decision concerning
the location was postponed until the Ist
of next January. On that date Park River,
N. D., is to have the Iceland college if it
raises its bonus to $6,000, and if Winnipeg
meanwhile is able to make no tempting
offers.
An Unsuspected Bribe.
Justice Brewer of the United States su
preme court recently told the following
anecdote: “Several years ago a cigar
maker in Washington named Scott got
up a brand of cigars which he called the
‘Supreme Court. ’ The labels on the inside
of the boxes were pictures of the entire
court, and tho cigar was a good one. I
know this becausexme day each of the jus
tices received two boxes of them, with the
compliments of Mr. Scott Nothing was
thought of this fact at the time, and it
was taken as a slight courtesy in return
for the use of our pictures, but several
weeks later we learned that the cigars had
been sent to soothe our anger. One of the
clerks had gone to Scott and told him that
the members of the court were much pro
voked at him and intended prosecuting
him for taking such liberties with their
pictures. Scott was frightened, and he
bit upon the idea of bribing the justices,
and I suppose thought he succeeded, for
be was never prosecuted, nor had such a
thing been thought of.”
Chicago Biver.
“The cost of widening the Chicago river
sufficiently to secure 300,000 cubic feet of
water per minute for the Chicago drainage
canals,” says the Philadelphia Record, “is
estimated to be $375,000 by the committee
of real estate experts appointed by the
board of-trustees. This committee divides
the costas follows: Real estate, $73,000;
purchasing and rebuilding docks, $35,000;
dredging, $75,000; construction of by
passes, $200,000.” "
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